"take some simple steps to ensure that you don't bork your site" unborked[.com] is currently available. A site dedicated to stopping all of the borking going

"take some simple steps to ensure that you don't bork your site" unborked[.com] is currently available. A site dedicated to stopping all of the borking going on out there. === I think some cheap, simple sql dumps from the db, burned to an external HD and taken home would've been a good first step -- your data would be dated but somehow restorable nonetheless without the need for off-site, replicated, heart-beat monitored databases. IMHO you really need an expert database admin (of which I am not) to get all of this up and keep all of it going; a caretaker who's only job in life is the maintenance of any and all persisted data. On another note, backups are really useless unless you have actually tested the restores.